Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. The USA Beat Jamaica 3-1 in the Gold Cup semis and in a lot of ways it was the kind of performance we've

been waiting for from Berhalter and the boys wasn't it Greg? Bells it was

exactly the kind of performance I've been waiting for. It was not perfect, it was messy at times, but it was a real comfortable, I shouldn't go that far. It felt like it was going to be a very comfortable victory for Greg Berhalter, our boys, and the system.

Yeah, particularly, I mean there's much to talk about in this game but one big thing is the weather

delay the first 15 minutes were electric from the US. It wasn't always

wonderful in the attacking third and that's going to be I think probably a bit of an issue for this group of players in perpetuity but

but it was you, we had three really good chances in the first 10 minutes, one of them

resulting in a goal, two really good chances in the first four minutes. It was we came we came flying out of the

out of the gate. Yeah flying out of the gate and that's that's where I think it's such a

good like a perfect

it's not a perfect demonstration of what we wanted from a Greg Berthalter team and that is we know the quality isn't always going to be perfect it's not going to be always

ruthlessly executed once once we create like certain chances but we created those

chances and I think the movement and the interchange and the system if I'm just

going to keep referring to that was large part responsible.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's get into it.

Let's start with the lineups.

How did the USA lineup and what were the surprises.

All right, so the lineup that was tasked

with implementing the system for the US.

And I'm gonna, it's an asymmetrical sort of a system

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